Battle of Saratoga monument
— — the obelisk for the surrender that turned the war.
Not only on a wall.
“A pale granite obelisk on a hill above the Hudson, raised to mark the spot where British General John Burgoyne surrendered his army in October 1777. The shaft rises about a hundred and fifty-five feet, with statues of three American commanders in its lower niches and an empty fourth bay where Benedict Arnold's likeness would otherwise stand. The view from the observation level reaches across the upper valley toward the Green Mountains. from the studio
Battle of Saratoga monument, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Saratoga Monument stands on a small bluff in the village of Schuylerville, in Saratoga County, about forty miles north of Albany and a few hundred yards from the Hudson River. The site sits within the Schuylerville unit of Saratoga National Historical Park, administered by the National Park Service. The shaft is laid in pale granite, rises about a hundred and fifty-five feet, and was built between 1877 and 1883 to mark the centennial of the Saratoga campaign. The view from the observation level reaches the upper Hudson Valley and, on clear days, the Green Mountains of Vermont.
The obelisk is the work of architect Jared Clark Markham, with sculpture by George Edwin Bissell. Three lower niches hold bronze statues of American commanders Horatio Gates, Philip Schuyler, and Daniel Morgan. The fourth niche, on the south face, was left deliberately empty. It would have held Benedict Arnold, whose battlefield charge broke the British line at Bemis Heights on October 7, 1777, but whose later defection to the British in 1780 took his name off the monument. The empty bay is one of the most quietly pointed details on any nineteenth-century American monument.
The Saratoga Monument is generally open for the climb to the observation level in the warmer months, often Wednesday through Sunday from late spring into autumn, with hours posted by the National Park Service. There is no charge to enter. A spiral cast-iron stair runs the interior, with stained-glass windows set at the landings. The associated Saratoga battlefield, where the two engagements of September and October 1777 were fought, lies about ten miles south near Stillwater, and is best driven as a separate tour-road loop.